Ryan STM

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The very nicely built Ryan ST posted on the 18th was captioned as belonging to the Royal Netherlands Air Force. That organization did not exist until 1953. The closest thing in the East Indies was the ML-KNIL - essentially, Air Corps of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army.

But this particular STM didn't belong to the ML-KNIL (which had many, but all coded with R0-nn). The 'S' serial shows it belonged to the MLD, the Netherlands Navy air arm.